Everything’s coming together for Dawntrail’s release. Image via Square Enix<\/figcaption><\/figure>
Following the implementation of Materia, Meteor, and Dynamis throughout 2022, Shadow is the fourth new DC in a series of efforts by the dev team to prevent the Endwalker<\/em> launch disaster from happening to Dawntrail<\/em>. Players who lived through the catastrophe of December 2021 will remember the hours spent simply trying to get into the game to play Endwalker. <\/em>Having to sit through a queue of thousands of players before being allowed into the world servers was considered lucky\u2014most players found themselves booted out of the queue by the infamous 2002 server error and forced to start again.<\/p>